Software Engineering Jobs

Software Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 12,406 9,785 29,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 10.32% 17.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.10% 10.81% 18.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,684 6,228 9,719
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,375 £70,000 £69,078
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +1.34% +15.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,800 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +13 9,500 £57,500 -4.17% 1,505
England +4 8,775 £62,500 -16.67% 2,367
Work from Home 0 4,288 £65,000 -10.34% 1,233
Scotland +4 2,998 £60,000 -7.69% 131
London +2 2,504 £91,500 +1.67% 996
North of England +14 1,782 £57,500 -6.12% 339
South East +5 1,590 £55,000 -14.73% 328
South West +11 1,317 £55,000 -11.93% 239
North West +16 1,079 £60,000 -6.25% 229
Midlands +16 952 £55,000 -4.35% 243
East of England +14 569 £60,000 -7.69% 186
Yorkshire +12 559 £55,000 -10.57% 80
West Midlands +27 527 £60,000 - 120
East Midlands +8 425 £50,000 -9.09% 122
Wales +9 184 £50,000 - 28
North East +17 144 £55,000 +10.98% 34
Northern Ireland +1 110 £60,000 +20.00% 31

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 697 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 675 (5.44%) Apache
3 587 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
4 346 (2.79%) ArcGIS
5 330 (2.66%) GeoServer
6 154 (1.24%) Confluence
7 104 (0.84%) FileNet
8 39 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 37 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
10 30 (0.24%) CMS
11 29 (0.23%) nginx
12 21 (0.17%) GemFire
13 19 (0.15%) IIS
14 18 (0.15%) Camunda
14 18 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 14 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 14 (0.11%) NServiceBus
15 14 (0.11%) WordPress
16 12 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
17 11 (0.089%) CICS
Applications
1 145 (1.17%) Simulink
2 29 (0.23%) Stateflow
3 25 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.089%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.081%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.048%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.048%) Trello
10 5 (0.040%) GNU Octave
11 4 (0.032%) Doxygen
11 4 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.024%) Sketch
12 3 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.024%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.016%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.008%) Notion
14 1 (0.008%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 52 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.073%) Magento
4 7 (0.056%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.040%) Ripple
5 5 (0.040%) Siebel CRM
6 4 (0.032%) Shopify
7 3 (0.024%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.024%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.024%) Endur
7 3 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.016%) C-CURE
8 2 (0.016%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.016%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.016%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.016%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.016%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.008%) Ripple XRP
9 1 (0.008%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.008%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,977 (32.06%) AWS
2 2,270 (18.30%) Azure
3 999 (8.05%) GCP
4 451 (3.64%) Serverless
5 391 (3.15%) SaaS
6 347 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 321 (2.59%) dbt
8 310 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 291 (2.35%) GitHub
10 269 (2.17%) Snowflake
11 249 (2.01%) Amazon S3
12 203 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
13 200 (1.61%) Power Platform
14 146 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
15 144 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
16 141 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
17 133 (1.07%) Datadog
18 126 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
19 124 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
20 101 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 154 (1.24%) TCP/IP
1 154 (1.24%) Wireless
2 98 (0.79%) Network Security
3 92 (0.74%) Ethernet
4 83 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
5 82 (0.66%) Kerberos
6 74 (0.60%) HTTP
7 68 (0.55%) Internet
8 67 (0.54%) RS-232
9 54 (0.44%) Bluetooth
10 52 (0.42%) MQTT
11 44 (0.35%) RS-485
12 42 (0.34%) AMQP
13 36 (0.29%) Modbus
14 31 (0.25%) Firewall
15 24 (0.19%) ZigBee
16 23 (0.19%) 5G
17 22 (0.18%) 4G
18 18 (0.15%) DSL
19 17 (0.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 954 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 837 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
3 589 (4.75%) Big Data
4 415 (3.35%) Apache Ignite
5 400 (3.22%) MySQL
6 385 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 372 (3.00%) GIS
8 360 (2.90%) Data Lake
9 331 (2.67%) Relational Database
10 330 (2.66%) QGIS
11 317 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
12 314 (2.53%) Dremio
13 307 (2.47%) Apache Arrow
14 304 (2.45%) Hadoop
15 242 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
16 236 (1.90%) MongoDB
17 176 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
18 167 (1.35%) Redis
19 145 (1.17%) Apache Hive
20 132 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,063 (8.57%) Git
2 546 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 372 (3.00%) JIRA
4 297 (2.39%) Visual Studio
5 280 (2.26%) GitLab
6 260 (2.10%) JUnit
7 229 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 189 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 142 (1.14%) Selenium
10 127 (1.02%) Jasmine
11 102 (0.82%) Maven
12 95 (0.77%) Artifactory
13 91 (0.73%) Subversion
14 85 (0.69%) LabVIEW
15 84 (0.68%) Bitbucket Server
16 71 (0.57%) WebDriver
17 67 (0.54%) Cucumber
18 66 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
19 64 (0.52%) Sourcetree
20 62 (0.50%) Protractor
General
1 3,736 (30.11%) Finance
2 2,818 (22.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,468 (19.89%) Law
4 1,569 (12.65%) Social Skills
5 1,373 (11.07%) Marketing
6 1,012 (8.16%) Banking
7 794 (6.40%) Legal
8 684 (5.51%) Front Office
9 669 (5.39%) Investment Banking
10 565 (4.55%) Electronics
11 479 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
12 412 (3.32%) Manufacturing
13 288 (2.32%) Financial Institution
14 278 (2.24%) Automotive
15 236 (1.90%) Public Sector
16 228 (1.84%) Games
17 227 (1.83%) Aerospace
18 209 (1.68%) Retail
19 194 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
20 154 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8,165 (65.81%) Software Engineer
2 3,030 (24.42%) Senior
3 2,256 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,949 (15.71%) Developer
5 1,670 (13.46%) Lead
6 1,192 (9.61%) Embedded Engineer
7 1,169 (9.42%) Java Engineer
8 1,114 (8.98%) Java Software Engineer
9 1,099 (8.86%) Lead Software Engineer
10 1,096 (8.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 751 (6.05%) Python Engineer
12 700 (5.64%) Python Software Engineer
13 556 (4.48%) Full Stack Engineer
14 545 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
15 495 (3.99%) AWS Software Engineer
15 495 (3.99%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 473 (3.81%) Software Developer
17 424 (3.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 410 (3.30%) Senior Developer
19 405 (3.26%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,084 (16.80%) React
2 1,922 (15.49%) .NET
3 1,021 (8.23%) AngularJS
4 997 (8.04%) Spring
5 996 (8.03%) CSS
6 762 (6.14%) Node.js
7 760 (6.13%) HTML
8 754 (6.08%) .NET Core
9 640 (5.16%) Kafka
10 583 (4.70%) Spring Boot
11 574 (4.63%) RESTful
12 496 (4.00%) gRPC
13 442 (3.56%) Protocol Buffers
14 420 (3.39%) REST
15 411 (3.31%) Pandas
16 397 (3.20%) NumPy
17 368 (2.97%) Web Services
18 366 (2.95%) Vue
19 363 (2.93%) ASP.NET
20 340 (2.74%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1,188 (9.58%) Algorithms
2 1,158 (9.33%) Cloud Native
3 594 (4.79%) Fixed Income
4 537 (4.33%) Hedge funds
5 484 (3.90%) Equities
6 437 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 432 (3.48%) Derivative
8 328 (2.64%) Public Cloud
9 313 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
10 285 (2.30%) Data Structures
11 283 (2.28%) IoT
12 278 (2.24%) Product Ownership
13 273 (2.20%) Onboarding
14 266 (2.14%) Management Information System
15 257 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
16 249 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
17 220 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
18 176 (1.42%) Client/Server
19 144 (1.16%) Mobile App
20 137 (1.10%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1,432 (11.54%) Linux
2 501 (4.04%) Windows
3 250 (2.02%) Embedded Linux
4 201 (1.62%) Unix
5 186 (1.50%) Android
6 160 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 131 (1.06%) Apple iOS
8 68 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 61 (0.49%) CentOS
10 56 (0.45%) Debian
11 40 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
12 29 (0.23%) Windows Server
13 25 (0.20%) Mac OS
14 17 (0.14%) VMS
15 14 (0.11%) Windows 10
16 8 (0.064%) Alpine Linux
16 8 (0.064%) VxWorks
17 6 (0.048%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.048%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.040%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,594 (45.09%) Agile
2 2,927 (23.59%) CI/CD
3 2,617 (21.09%) SDLC
4 1,994 (16.07%) Machine Learning
5 1,991 (16.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,830 (14.75%) Operational Stability
7 1,813 (14.61%) DevOps
8 1,791 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 1,667 (13.44%) Computer Science
10 1,410 (11.37%) Full Stack Development
11 1,307 (10.54%) Community of Practice
12 1,249 (10.07%) Microservices
13 1,092 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,091 (8.79%) Mentoring
15 958 (7.72%) Visualisation
16 851 (6.86%) Test Automation
17 823 (6.63%) TDD
18 809 (6.52%) Asset Management
19 808 (6.51%) Scrum
20 777 (6.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3,712 (29.92%) Python
2 3,551 (28.62%) Java
3 2,440 (19.67%) JavaScript
4 2,358 (19.01%) C#
5 2,305 (18.58%) SQL
6 1,579 (12.73%) TypeScript
7 1,411 (11.37%) C
8 1,264 (10.19%) C++
9 490 (3.95%) Scala
10 406 (3.27%) Go
11 328 (2.64%) Embedded C
12 327 (2.64%) Kotlin
13 301 (2.43%) PHP
14 238 (1.92%) Bash
15 225 (1.81%) Rust
16 152 (1.23%) PL/SQL
17 148 (1.19%) MATLAB
18 128 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 126 (1.02%) PowerShell
20 125 (1.01%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,917 (15.45%) Degree
2 1,391 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 893 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 658 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 318 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 221 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 214 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 146 (1.18%) PhD
9 59 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 53 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 51 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 38 (0.31%) HND
13 35 (0.28%) Azure Certification
14 29 (0.23%) HNC
15 27 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.19%) ISTQB
16 23 (0.19%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.16%) CISSP
18 16 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
19 12 (0.097%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 364 (2.93%) QA
2 160 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 143 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 67 (0.54%) SLA
5 54 (0.44%) MISRA
6 36 (0.29%) GDPR
7 34 (0.27%) PMO
8 30 (0.24%) ISO 26262
9 28 (0.23%) ISO 13485
10 24 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
11 23 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 22 (0.18%) Def Stans
13 21 (0.17%) Automotive SPICE
14 20 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
15 19 (0.15%) IEC 61508
16 17 (0.14%) PCI DSS
17 15 (0.12%) NCSC
17 15 (0.12%) NIST
18 13 (0.10%) IEC 62304
18 13 (0.10%) JTAG
System Software
1 847 (6.83%) Docker
2 305 (2.46%) Firmware
3 133 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 105 (0.85%) HDFS
5 101 (0.81%) Active Directory
6 49 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.089%) IAG
8 11 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.073%) KVM
10 8 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.048%) Ceph
12 5 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.032%) NFS
14 3 (0.024%) Hyper-V
14 3 (0.024%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.016%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
16 1 (0.008%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1,182 (9.53%) Kubernetes
2 790 (6.37%) Terraform
3 242 (1.95%) Ansible
4 226 (1.82%) Grafana
5 110 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 41 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 36 (0.29%) Puppet
8 32 (0.26%) Kibana
9 26 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (0.17%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
11 16 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 8 (0.064%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.064%) Istio
13 7 (0.056%) Graphite
14 6 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.048%) Knative
14 6 (0.048%) Nessus
15 5 (0.040%) Argo
15 5 (0.040%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 746 (6.01%) Microsoft
2 440 (3.55%) Oracle
3 402 (3.24%) Google
4 342 (2.76%) ESRI
5 292 (2.35%) Databricks
6 210 (1.69%) Splunk
7 169 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 92 (0.74%) Informatica
9 79 (0.64%) Cloudera
10 73 (0.59%) SAP
11 72 (0.58%) IBM
12 64 (0.52%) Red Hat
13 57 (0.46%) Xamarin
14 56 (0.45%) Atlassian
15 55 (0.44%) Alteryx
16 48 (0.39%) SaltStack
16 48 (0.39%) Siemens
17 42 (0.34%) Xilinx
18 41 (0.33%) Bloomberg
19 38 (0.31%) Salesforce